Party-Poopers!
Facing the Tank!
On Jordan's gay party-raid. What's really going on there? The cat and the case...
So when you think these series of ridiculous raiding has come to an end, one pops up at a weekend night ! And last night (2rd of December 2010) isn’t long time ago really! Another public scare (boooo), another empty bullet, and another episode full of funny remarks… Previously on ‘raid the parties’: The last Halloween incident, which included, and which you didn’t know about, a body guard who was under the influence of alcohol, that has been rejected by a gay guy, has pulled a brave heart in the exclusive (PS moveable) gay party, threatening the crowd, on which ended up with everybody on the street at 3:30 am in the morning. And Last night was no exception, only a case of fleeing queens! The cherry on top was Ammon’s article, which didn’t shy away from salt-pinching the news way out of proportion, and way out of base. At late Thursday (2nd of December 2010), and as a shock as it was, a gay party was held, right off Mecca St, (shocking for the fact that we all thought that everybody wants to cool it down since last Halloween), I guess the bevy partiers couldn’t hold it down. After a mid night raid, around 2:00 am, seeing police cars (a couple really) standing there Q&A the party-goers. And off of what we really saw last night, we knew it’ll end up somewhere on the headlines! A thumb rule: anything that includes police includes media-raids! Waking-up in the morning, reading a 530 (homophobic) commented article, and counting… wasn’t really the butter on our toasts!
Ammon’s ‘unstudied’ report has got our readers mad! “It’s very untrue!” one My.Kali-er commented “what happened last night isn’t as reported in the article. Not even remotely close” So is what we read was a media fabrication? And why some details are missing?
Getting into this ‘Gossip-tell-all’, we called some of the party-goers for real details, as we did receive 10’s of emails from My.Kali-ers. And as we learned, there was a suspicious guy, an undercover as some has put it, who attended the party earlier, post the raiding-time, who as we also learned held a video! “The police walked in, turned on the lights, stopped the music and sat everybody down, and asked who hosted the party. Demanded no one leaves without showing their IDs” The IDs was returned back shortly after. People who were held were the ones without IDs. “The police came and asked every one about their IDs, they held us for 2 hours inside and no one was allowed to leave. They were very tough” another partier said. “My friends offered to let me out, but I refused to leave without my friends whom I came with, which ended up everybody’s case,” another goer said. “Everybody refused to leave without their friends” What made us suspicious? “It’s all a fabrication! Cause as soon as I got out of the club, which was around 2:30 am, my friend, has already sent me a link to my blackberry, of Ammon’s news around 2:00 am! I mean how could a news-report be published before the incident while we’re still among the event?” The goer said. So again, how could a news report be published prior 2 am has discussed incidents that happened at 3:30 am? More than 1 hour in time difference between the published report and what was actually going on! Time difference has caused a stir! Which was right, the first comment to Ammon’s report was at 2:07 am, while the news included incidents at 3:30 am!
“The police just came in, they wrote our names and we were video-taped, which was weird. I was let out because one of the police men liked how I looked….” Another goer said. “Some people who were asked for ID’s had fled which made it oddly suspicious” a gossiper spiced-in! So the question is, was this party been reported prior it’s time, which it clues to that conclusion? Was it ‘a certain’ media reporter? “I think it’s all media fabrication!” another My.Kali-er commented. “The video that was taken, I bet it’ll be published in the coming few days” So is the suspicious person who was seen among the crowd, secretly vid-taping the dancing crowd, is a news-reporter after all? “He was standing on the police’s side the whole time, with his camera. He showed some footage to my friend when she was questioned and confronted by the police. I did see him earlier hovering around in the party!” another goer remarked.
The hall that is often used for the parties is unlicensed, which is a weak point, and could be a reason for the raid’s cause. Q: why would the police raid a gay party when homosexuality isn’t (per-se) illegal in the Kingdom of Jordan? Complaints of the neighbors? Loud music? We doubt! “When RGB was open few years ago, the club, which was by the 3rd circle, took place right across the street from a police station. RGB held weekly parties for a couple of years!” one commentator added. But what another paper, Fact-Jo, has remarked and focused on that the media spokesman for the public security has revealed that they stopped the party for the fact that it was held at an unlicensed hall and not for the fact that it was a gay party.
Still, the whole thing didn’t make sense to anyone, how could it really? And as quoted from the ‘LGBT rights page in Jordan’ on the Wikipedia: [The National Press Law (aka "Press and Publication Law") was amended in 1998, and again in 2004. The initial document prohibited the depiction or endorsement of "sexual perversion", which may have included homosexuality. The revised edition in 2004 has a few provisions of direct impact on LGBT rights in Jordan. First of all, the content ban on 'sexual perversion' is replaced with a general requirement that the press "respect the values of....the Arab and Islamic nation." and that that press must also avoid encroaching into people's private lives.] Yet, it has been discussed that public display off affection, dancing, loud music and alcohol consuming is the reason to close a party and the likes these days, as reported, then why don’t we see other ‘mainstream’ parties get shut down? Another raised brow!
And while Ammon’s article has caused a web stir, many has rushed voicing their opinion, from Doctors and lawyers to LGBT people and foreigners, one that got our attention was Maher’s, which he stated saying: “I know this will not be published, so I’ll be sending it to you. My dear Ammoun, since you do not publish the comments that are against this article, the article that shows how ignorant the article is, I would love to tell you that you are a shame on all the media and propaganda in the world. Claiming to be honest and conduct the correct image to the reader. I'm one of those... I always go to these parties, and proud. But the problem is that you do not know what you are talking about. You are not even close to that! I don’t want this to be published, because as I can see: the comments you publish show the ignorant class of the Jordanian population. And I shall not even lower my self to such ignorance. And since you are agreeing to grab tighter on the hands of those ignorants, I shall be proud to declare you, my dear Ammoun, the most ignorant and steered news network. Shall God Bless every human being” Says commentator, Maher (no.312).
“Maher, we have no problem publishing your comment or any other. As long as it does not contain profanity” Ammon’s editor replied, and just to be sure what profanity really means: Abusive, vulgar, or irreverent language (really!). Unlike some of the comments that held homophobic remarks, death-threat callers, haters and the likes… many even blamed LGBT citizens on the delay of winter and its rain, as if it has nothing to do with the climate change reasoned by global warming! “My brothers, where’s the police? I swear those who are failing our society. It’s necessary to shoot them down the line without trials, and if their fathers are part of the officials and authorities, shoot them too, because they didn’t know how to raise their children. Come on brave hearts, lend your hands and grab your guns!” another commentator (no.17) on the Ammon’s article wrote, which was translated from Arabic to English. Again, “…As long as it does not contain profanity” Ammon’s editor said. Yet, the mainstream, still allows Ammon to teach what ‘profanity’ really is.
So what’s your new morning routine? Wake-up in the morning, turn-off ‘your’ alarm and get a stretch and yawning, then start shaking haters off! Kelly Rolland never failed to deliver a message.
Read the article in Ammon, in Arabic (here>)
Read the article in Ammon, in English (here>)
Updates: Fact International paper have covered briefly on the incident, on which it focused on the main reason of the police stopping the party was for the fact the hall was unlicensed and not for the fact it was a gay party, New in Arabic (here>)
Ammon’s ‘unstudied’ report has got our readers mad! “It’s very untrue!” one My.Kali-er commented “what happened last night isn’t as reported in the article. Not even remotely close” So is what we read was a media fabrication? And why some details are missing?
Getting into this ‘Gossip-tell-all’, we called some of the party-goers for real details, as we did receive 10’s of emails from My.Kali-ers. And as we learned, there was a suspicious guy, an undercover as some has put it, who attended the party earlier, post the raiding-time, who as we also learned held a video! “The police walked in, turned on the lights, stopped the music and sat everybody down, and asked who hosted the party. Demanded no one leaves without showing their IDs” The IDs was returned back shortly after. People who were held were the ones without IDs. “The police came and asked every one about their IDs, they held us for 2 hours inside and no one was allowed to leave. They were very tough” another partier said. “My friends offered to let me out, but I refused to leave without my friends whom I came with, which ended up everybody’s case,” another goer said. “Everybody refused to leave without their friends” What made us suspicious? “It’s all a fabrication! Cause as soon as I got out of the club, which was around 2:30 am, my friend, has already sent me a link to my blackberry, of Ammon’s news around 2:00 am! I mean how could a news-report be published before the incident while we’re still among the event?” The goer said. So again, how could a news report be published prior 2 am has discussed incidents that happened at 3:30 am? More than 1 hour in time difference between the published report and what was actually going on! Time difference has caused a stir! Which was right, the first comment to Ammon’s report was at 2:07 am, while the news included incidents at 3:30 am!
“The police just came in, they wrote our names and we were video-taped, which was weird. I was let out because one of the police men liked how I looked….” Another goer said. “Some people who were asked for ID’s had fled which made it oddly suspicious” a gossiper spiced-in! So the question is, was this party been reported prior it’s time, which it clues to that conclusion? Was it ‘a certain’ media reporter? “I think it’s all media fabrication!” another My.Kali-er commented. “The video that was taken, I bet it’ll be published in the coming few days” So is the suspicious person who was seen among the crowd, secretly vid-taping the dancing crowd, is a news-reporter after all? “He was standing on the police’s side the whole time, with his camera. He showed some footage to my friend when she was questioned and confronted by the police. I did see him earlier hovering around in the party!” another goer remarked.
The hall that is often used for the parties is unlicensed, which is a weak point, and could be a reason for the raid’s cause. Q: why would the police raid a gay party when homosexuality isn’t (per-se) illegal in the Kingdom of Jordan? Complaints of the neighbors? Loud music? We doubt! “When RGB was open few years ago, the club, which was by the 3rd circle, took place right across the street from a police station. RGB held weekly parties for a couple of years!” one commentator added. But what another paper, Fact-Jo, has remarked and focused on that the media spokesman for the public security has revealed that they stopped the party for the fact that it was held at an unlicensed hall and not for the fact that it was a gay party.
Still, the whole thing didn’t make sense to anyone, how could it really? And as quoted from the ‘LGBT rights page in Jordan’ on the Wikipedia: [The National Press Law (aka "Press and Publication Law") was amended in 1998, and again in 2004. The initial document prohibited the depiction or endorsement of "sexual perversion", which may have included homosexuality. The revised edition in 2004 has a few provisions of direct impact on LGBT rights in Jordan. First of all, the content ban on 'sexual perversion' is replaced with a general requirement that the press "respect the values of....the Arab and Islamic nation." and that that press must also avoid encroaching into people's private lives.] Yet, it has been discussed that public display off affection, dancing, loud music and alcohol consuming is the reason to close a party and the likes these days, as reported, then why don’t we see other ‘mainstream’ parties get shut down? Another raised brow!
And while Ammon’s article has caused a web stir, many has rushed voicing their opinion, from Doctors and lawyers to LGBT people and foreigners, one that got our attention was Maher’s, which he stated saying: “I know this will not be published, so I’ll be sending it to you. My dear Ammoun, since you do not publish the comments that are against this article, the article that shows how ignorant the article is, I would love to tell you that you are a shame on all the media and propaganda in the world. Claiming to be honest and conduct the correct image to the reader. I'm one of those... I always go to these parties, and proud. But the problem is that you do not know what you are talking about. You are not even close to that! I don’t want this to be published, because as I can see: the comments you publish show the ignorant class of the Jordanian population. And I shall not even lower my self to such ignorance. And since you are agreeing to grab tighter on the hands of those ignorants, I shall be proud to declare you, my dear Ammoun, the most ignorant and steered news network. Shall God Bless every human being” Says commentator, Maher (no.312).
“Maher, we have no problem publishing your comment or any other. As long as it does not contain profanity” Ammon’s editor replied, and just to be sure what profanity really means: Abusive, vulgar, or irreverent language (really!). Unlike some of the comments that held homophobic remarks, death-threat callers, haters and the likes… many even blamed LGBT citizens on the delay of winter and its rain, as if it has nothing to do with the climate change reasoned by global warming! “My brothers, where’s the police? I swear those who are failing our society. It’s necessary to shoot them down the line without trials, and if their fathers are part of the officials and authorities, shoot them too, because they didn’t know how to raise their children. Come on brave hearts, lend your hands and grab your guns!” another commentator (no.17) on the Ammon’s article wrote, which was translated from Arabic to English. Again, “…As long as it does not contain profanity” Ammon’s editor said. Yet, the mainstream, still allows Ammon to teach what ‘profanity’ really is.
So what’s your new morning routine? Wake-up in the morning, turn-off ‘your’ alarm and get a stretch and yawning, then start shaking haters off! Kelly Rolland never failed to deliver a message.
Read the article in Ammon, in Arabic (here>)
Read the article in Ammon, in English (here>)
Updates: Fact International paper have covered briefly on the incident, on which it focused on the main reason of the police stopping the party was for the fact the hall was unlicensed and not for the fact it was a gay party, New in Arabic (here>)
